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Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Department of Surgery

Edelstone-Bendix Day

Edelstone-Bendix Day is a longstanding tradition in the Department of Surgery. Events include a faculty retreat, the William H. Pearce, MD Research Symposium, and the General Surgery Residency graduation.

William H. Pearce, MD Research Symposium

About Richard M. Bendix, MD

A visiting professor lectureship is offered in memory of Richard M. Bendix, MD, a distinguished physician and surgeon who graduated from Northwestern University Medical School. He is remembered as a guiding force in leadership, education, research, and patient care in the halcyon years of Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center. Sigmund Edelstone stipulated that this educational endowment forever carry forward the name and distinctive ideals of Dr. Bendix, through the message of these lectures.
Richard M. Bendix, MD

About Sigmund Edelstone

Sigmund Edelstone

Sigmund Edelstone (pictured center) was a noted Chicago Philanthropist whose testamentary generosity made this grant, from the Michael Reese Heath Trust, possible. Mr. Edelstone, former chairman of Dupli-Color Products, manufacturer of home, automotive, and industrial products, served his community as a patron of the arts and leader in civic and cultural organizations, and he maintained an equally ardent interest in the affairs of health and all its aspects—research, medical education, patient care and the policies that govern them. This interest found expression through a lifetime of giving to Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center.  It continues in perpetuity through his testamentary endowment, now a part of the Michael Reese Health Trust, a private foundation supporting programs in health and health education in metropolitan Chicago.

Edelstone-Bendix Lecturers

2025 - Daniel A. Hashimoto, MD, MSTR FACS, University of Pennsylvania

2024 - Kelly Wright, MD, Cedars-Sinai

2023 - Maria Elena Bottazzi, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine

2022 - Serena Auñón-Chancellor, MD, MPH, Louisiana State University and NASA

2021 - Hugh Herr, PhD, MIT, Geoff Ling, MD, PhD, Johns Hopkins Medicine, and Kacey Marra, PhD, University of Pittsburgh

2020 - Lectureship cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic

2019 - Melina R. Kibbe, MD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2018 - Hasan B. Alam, MD, University of Michigan Hospitals

2017 - Clyde F. Barker, MD, University of Pennsylvania

2016 - Elliot L. Chaikof, MD, PhD, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

2015 - Allan D. Kirk, MD, PhD, FACS, Duke University

2014 - Nancy L. Ascher, MD, PhD, University of California San Francisco

2013 - Michael W. Mulholland, MD, PhD, University of Michigan

2012 - David W. Mercer, MD, University of Nebraska

2011 - Gerard M. Doherty, MD, University of Michigan

2010 - David L. Dunn, MD, PhD, University at Buffalo, SUNY

2009 - George K. Gittes, MD, University of Pittsburgh

2008 - David A. Geller, MD, University of Pittsburgh

2007 - Jeffrey A. Drebin, MD, PhD, University of Pennsylvania

2006 - Wiley W. Souba, MD, ScD, MBA, Penn State College of Medicine

2005 - Christian P. Larsen, MD, PhD, Emory University

2004 - Jeffrey B. Matthews, MD, University of Cincinnati

2003 - Michael G. Sarr, MD, Mayo Medical School

2002 - Barbara L. Bass, MD, Tufts University

2001 - Gregory Jerome Jurkovich, MD, University of Washington

2000 - Michael William Mulholland, MD, PhD, University of Michigan

1998 - Stanley Dudrick, MD, St. Mary's Hospital

1997 - Michael Allan West, MD, PhD, University of Minnesota

1996 - David R. Knighton, MD, University of Minnesota

1995 - J. Byron Gathright, Jr., MD, Tulane University

1994 - Carlos A. Pellegrini, MD, University of Washington

1993 - Ernest E. Moore, Jr., MD, University of Colorado

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